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| Main Entry: | luck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good fortune |
| Synonyms: | advantage, blessing, break*, fluke*, godsend*, good luck, happiness, health, karma*, kismet*, lucky break*, occasion, opportunity, profit, prosperity, serendipity, smile*, stroke, success, triumph, victory, wealth, win, windfall, big break, fortunateness, in the cards, luckiness, run of luck, streak of luck, weal |
| Antonyms: | misfortune, bad fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | luck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance |
| Synonyms: | accident, break, destiny, fate, fortune, happenstance, hazard, occasion, occurrence, toss-up, fifty-fifty*, fortuity, hap, unforeseen event |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | luck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
accidental, adventitious, aimless, aleatory, casual, causeless, contingent, designless, driftless, fortuitous, fortunate, habnab, haply, incidental, indeterminate, indiscriminate, never thought of, not meant, possible, promiscuous, purposeless, random, uncaused, undesigned, undetermined, undirected, unintended, unintentional, unpremeditated, unpurposed, unwitting, without purpose
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| Main Entry: | advantage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | benefit, favored position or circumstance |
| Synonyms: | aid, ascendancy, asset, assistance, authority, avail, blessing, boon, break, choice, comfort, convenience, dominance, edge, eminence, favor, gain, good, gratification, help, hold, improvement, influence, interest, lead, leeway, leverage, luck, mastery, odds, position, power, precedence, preference, prestige, prevalence, profit, protection, recognition, resources, return, sanction, starting, superiority, support, supremacy, upper hand*, utility, wealth, expediency, leg-up, pre-eminence |
| Notes: | advantage is a relatively favorable position; superiority of means while vantage is a position, condition, or opportunity that is likely to provide superiority or an advantage |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage, drawback, handicap, hindrance, loss, obstacle, restriction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bump into |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen upon |
| Synonyms: | come across, encounter, hit, light, luck, meet, stumble, tumble, chance upon, light upon, meet up with, run across, run into |
| Main Entry: | destiny |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate |
| Synonyms: | afterlife, break*, certainty, circumstance, conclusion, condition, cup, design, doom, expectation, finality, fortune, future, happenstance, hereafter, horoscope, intent, intention, karma, kismet*, lot, luck, objective, ordinance, portion, predestination, prospect, serendipity, wheel of fortune*, Moirai, breaks, constellation, course of events, divine decree, foreordination, inevitability, predetermination, the stars, way the ball bounces, way the cookie crumbles, what is written, world to come |
| Antonyms: | choice, free will, volition |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | predetermined course |
| Synonyms: | break, chance, circumstance, consequence, cup*, destination, destiny, doom, effect, end, ending, fortune, future, handwriting on the wall, horoscope, issue, karma, kismet, lot, luck, nemesis, outcome, portion, predestination, providence, termination, upshot, wheel of fortune*, Moirai, divine will, inescapableness, stars |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | happen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come to pass; occur |
| Synonyms: | appear, arise, arrive, befall, betide, bump, chance, come about, come off, develop, down, ensue, eventuate, fall, follow, go on, hit, issue, light, luck, materialize, meet, pass, proceed, recur, result, shake, smoke*, spring, stumble, transpire, turn out, turn up, be found, become a fact, become known, become of, come after, come into being, come into existence, crop up, present itself, stumble upon, supervene, take effect, take place, what goes |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | kismet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, fortune |
| Synonyms: | Lady Luck*, chance, destination, destiny, doom, handwriting on the wall, horoscope, karma, lot, luck, portion, predestination, providence, divine will |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mercy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindness, compassion |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, blessing, boon, charity, clemency, commiseration, favor, forbearance, forgiveness, generosity, gentleness, godsend, goodwill, grace, humanity, leniency, luck, mildness, pity, quarter, relief, ruth, sympathy, tenderness, tolerance, benignancy, kindliness, lenience, lenity, lifesaver, softheartedness |
| Antonyms: | cruelty, intolerance, meanness, uncompassion |
| Main Entry: | risk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance taken |
| Synonyms: | accident, contingency, danger, exposure, flyer*, fortune, gamble, hazard, jeopardy, liability, luck, opportunity, peril, plunge, possibility, prospect, shot in the dark*, speculation, stab*, uncertainty, venture, wager, exposedness, fortuity, header, liableness, openness |
| Antonyms: | certainty, safety, surety, sureness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | serendipity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accidental discovery |
| Synonyms: | blessing, break*, fluke*, good luck, happenstance, luck, lucky break*, dumb luck, happy chance, stumbling upon, tripping over |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | welfare/well-being |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | health and prosperity |
| Synonyms: | abundance, advantage, benefit, contentment, ease, easy street*, euphoria, felicity, good, happiness, interest, luck, profit, progress, satisfaction, success, thriving, good fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | happenstance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance |
| Synonyms: | coincidence, fate, incident, luck |
| Main Entry: | Lady Luck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good luck |
| Synonyms: | Chance, Fortune, Luck, fate, wheel of fortune, Dame Fortune, Fortuna, Lady Fortune |
| Main Entry: | welfare |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prosperity |
| Synonyms: | abundance, advantage, benefit, contentment, ease, euphoria, felicity, good, happiness, health, interest, luck, profit, progress, satisfaction, success, thriving, well-being, east street, good fortune, pogey |
| Main Entry: | fetish |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obsession |
| Synonyms: | bias, craze*, desire, fixation, golden calf, idée fixe, leaning, luck, mania, partiality, penchant, predilection, prejudice, preoccupation, proclivity, propensity, stimulant, thing*, periapt, prepossession |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | meet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen on |
| Synonyms: | accost, affront, bump into, clash, collide, come across, confront, contact, cross, encounter, engage, experience, face, find, front, get together, grapple, greet, hit, light, luck*, salute, see, strike, stumble, tumble, tussle, wrestle, brush against, chance on, come up against, dig up, fall in with, make a meet, meet face to face, rendezvous with, rub eyeballs, run across, run into, run up against, touch shoulders |
| Antonyms: | miss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | accident |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance event |
| Synonyms: | adventure, circumstance, contingency, fate, fluke*, fortune, happening, luck, occasion, occurrence, turn, fortuity |
| Antonyms: | calculation, decision, decree, plan |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | big win |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desirable chance discovery |
| Synonyms: | luck, serendipity, accidental discovery, chance discovery, good fortune |
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